The wind power industry, free-market business groups, the governor and lawmakers have unveiled a compromise to overhaul the Kansas renewable energy standard. It would remove the mandate that 20 percent of power generation come from renewable sources and replace it with a voluntary goal.

Some advocacy groups get something they’ve wanted, eliminating the mandate for renewable energy. Mike O’Neal is president and CEO of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce.

Republicans may have gained enough seats in the Kansas House to end the state’s renewable energy standard in the last election. Activists on both sides of the issue are preparing for a fight in the next legislative session reports the Wichita Eagle.